A member of the species Australopithecus afarensis ... cousin of our direct ancestor—a newfound offshoot on the human family tree. “I think it’s solid” that Ardi is a hominid, if you ...

Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split in two about 1.5 million years ago, and then, only 300,000 years ago, ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations to trace back to our common African root in a giant human "tree ... African origin of the human species, but it argues that ...

Improved DNA techniques will help determine where each species fits within the family tree, and give us further insights into recent and ongoing human evolution. Museum scientists and collections are ...

but for years scientists failed to nail down exactly where it fit in the human family tree. Now, scientists have been able to confirm the identity of the mystery fossil, known as Penghu 1 ...